Construction at Delaware Memorial Bridge to be halted for Memorial Day weekend

John O'Boyle/The Star-LedgerConstruction will be halted at the Delaware Memorial Bridge this weekend.

NEWARK, Del. — The Delaware Department of Transportation and its counterpart in New Jersey are suspending road work to help ease holiday weekend traffic backups at Interstate-95 toll booths.

Memorial Day weekend traffic is expected to begin today. Officials say bottlenecks are still expected to form at Delaware's toll booths where EZ-Pass lanes are under construction. The backups became so bad at Thanksgiving that officials stopped collecting tolls for a time to get traffic moving.

Work on the toll plaza is expected to be completed by August.

Construction at the Delaware Memorial Bridge was scheduled to halt today to help ease traffic congestion.

Construction also has been underway at the Indian River Inlet Bridge in Sussex County. Traffic is reduced to one lane in each direction on the bridge.